Two titans of ancient conquest go head-to-head! Join us as we compare Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great across five ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Alexander the Great famously founded the city of Alexandria in 331 BCE. It went on to be the capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom ...

In the wake of Alexander ... by a statue of Zeus provided a suitably theatrical arrival to the city where Europe, Africa and Asia met. Once ashore, visitors hastened to Alexandria’s Great ...

The Temple of Amun in Siwa, where Alexander the Great ... Alexandria, Cairo, Siwa, Fayoum and Bahariya from £5,400, including return flights from London, a driver and guides. ‘Lee Miller’s ...

He also reigned for more than 60 years, dying in 1213 B.C. Ptolemy I Soter was a general of Alexander the Great and started ... to start a new city in Egypt, called Alexandria.

But he also noticed the half-buried statue of a sphinx ... to the era of Greek rule in Egypt following the Late Period, after Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great’s top generals, founded a ...

and building the city of Alexandria to glorify his name. Alexander the Great sought to govern Egypt in a manner that would earn him the Egyptians’ respect, portraying himself not as a tyrant, but as a ...

Cleopatra was a daughter of Egypt – part of the Macedonian-Greek-Ptolemaic Dynasty that had ruled since the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC ... Ptolemy XIII banished Cleopatra from Alexandria ...